Violent Storm Destroys Homes and Neighboring Church in Tunica County

(Dundee, MS) People in Tunica County are cleaning up from what looks like a possible tornado, where buildings were no match for Mother Nature. Saturday’s powerful tornado left a few people homeless and many more without a church home.

William Conway rounded up what he could Sunday. He and his wife have very little left after violent winds and heavy rain ripped their home to pieces and scattered it on both sides of Flea Harbor Road.

“That was my kitchen and the den was on the corner,” pointed on Conway.

Now, his home’s rooms are just cinder blocks and pieces of wood. Conway and his wife were inside their home when the lights went black. Winds physically threw them out of their house as they screamed for each other.

“I must have fell on my shoulder, its sore,” said Conway.

The storm slammed into nine houses on the block. Conway’s brother lives a few houses down, he and his wife laid flat on the ground as the storm passed over.

“It was roaring like a train. I could see it coming across the field, just a big wind,” said Lennard Conway.

The horror lasted only lasted two minutes. But the family says it will take a while to piece together what the storm destroyed. Still, they are grateful they will all be together this holiday.